Entry № 6550 · Indigenous Australian origin

Marlee Marlee — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAR-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indigenous Australian
Meaning
"Black swan"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Indigenous Australian)

A name that means "black swan".

Marlee comes from the Indigenous Australian word for "black swan" — the bird native to Australia.

Black swan. The Australian bird.

The name in its native script.

Marlee
Transliteration
Marlee
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːr.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marlee stands.

Marlee does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Marlees before her.

Real people
Marlee Matlin
American Oscar-winning Deaf actress.
born 1965
In fiction

Names connected to Marlee.

The number behind Marlee.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marlee reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.